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18E-30-Asteroids On An Inside Track
Only 13 out of the more than 10,000 Earth approaching objects have their orbit completely within that of the Earth.
7 years, 2 months ago
529-Africano 4
My Catalina Sky Survey Teammate Brian Africano discovered his 4th comet while asteroid hunting in the constellation of Ursa Major with our Schmidt te…
7 years, 2 months ago
17E-28-Finding An Asteroid for Astronauts
A prelude of a manned flyby of Venus and Mars could be a manned mission to an asteroid. The search for an appropriate asteroid continues.
7 years, 2 months ago
528-Asteroid Billiards
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART for short will test methods to make a dangerous asteroid miss Earth.
7 years, 3 months ago
16E-27-A Lucky Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th of 2029 will be a lucky day for the Human race when the asteroid passes very near the Earth.
7 years, 3 months ago
527-Comet Groeller
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Hannes Groeller was asteroid hunting with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona when he discovered his first …
7 years, 3 months ago
15E-26-Binary Asteroids
Approximately 1 out of 5 large Near-Earth Asteroids are really double or triple systems of objects orbiting a common center of gravity. Such double t…
7 years, 3 months ago
526-Tiny Visitor
A tiny space rock passes through the cloud of communications satellites surrounding the Earth.
7 years, 3 months ago
14E-25-Fireballs
Occasionally one observes a meteor brighter than the Planet Venus which is called a fireball. Some of them can be bright enough to be seen in the day…
7 years, 3 months ago
525-Collision
The object which the 2.3 mile diameter Gault hit is likely to have been a third of a mile diameter space rock. This celestial crash left Gault with a…
7 years, 3 months ago